INDEX 



Advantages and profits si 



Analysis of onions 72 



Barletta onions, Assorted sizes 



of 63 



Bibliography 108 



Bunching or green onions 64 



Conclusion 112 



Crating choice onions 46 



Curing crib 40 



Shed 39 



The crop 39 



Damping off 10 



Expense of crop per acre 52 



Flat onions 60 



Flats, plants raised in 3 



Forcing pits 7 



Greenhouses, small 8 



Harvesting the crop 38 



When and how 38 



Homemade onion hoe 36 



Hotbeds 3 



Fire 6 



Level ground 5 



Sunken pits 4 



Importance of good plants 14 



Insects and diseases 87 



Onion cutworms 92 



Macrosporium 101 



Maggot 87 



Mildew 1 00 



Smut 95 



Thrip 89 



Vermicularia 102 



Irrigation 37 



Keeping onions during winter... 49 



Manure 13, 71 



Animal 17 



Barnjrard 71 



Chemical 17 



Hen 72 



How to prepare it 13 



Put it on thick 16 



Marker, old style 22 



Tracing wheel 24 



Muck land for onions 14 



Nitrogenous commercial fertiliz- 

 ers 73 



Old onion culture, The 55 



OnioQ sieve 62 



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Pickling onions, Cleaning 63 



For 61 



Plants, how they are grown 1 



How they are set 21 



Potash salts 74 



uality for seed 61 



eceipts of crop per acre 53 



Red onions 59 



Round onions 59 



Seed bed 11 



Growing _ 68 



Growing in California 68 



Sewing with a d"ll 57 



Selling from the field 49 



The crop 44 



Sets, growing onion 64 



Setting the plants 21, 25 



Cost of 21 



Depth of 29 



Distances apart of 21 



Lifting the plants 27 



Time for 29 



Trimming the plants 27 



With the dibber 25 



Soil, how to fit 19 



What to select 13 



Soils and manures 70 



Southern states, Onions in the 105 



Storage houses 42 



Strawberries and onions 18 



Tillage as moisture preserver... 32 



As weed killer 33 



Varieties of onions 75 



Adriatic Barletta 81 



American 77 



American Pearl 81 



Australian Brown 79 



Barletta 81 



Beaulieu's Hardy White 85 



Bermuda Red 81 



Button ij 



Danvers 77 



Early Pearl 81 



Early Yellow Cracker 79 



Early White Queen 82 



Egyptian 76 



El Paso 83 



Extra Early Red 77 



Foreign varieties 81 



